This is an amazing resource of Halloween costume ideas. All these costumes have won a local contest, and for good reason! Imaginative and extremely effective, you will find yourself returning to this section over and over again.
A little sample of what you will see here include everything from a mini Mr. T to a pop art version of a Stepford Wife. In addition, many costumes take their inspiration from game shows such as Wheel of Fortune and Plinko.
It seems like people have a lot of fun recreating their favorite movie characters. Considering so many of them won contests, it’s a favorite of contest judges as well. Find out how you can become Ben Stiller’s character from Dodgeball and the whole gang from Guardians of the Galaxy. Animated movies are represented here as well from Disney princesses to Rafiki from The Lion King.
Take lessons from the masters as they take concepts and turn them into recognizable costumes, hence landing them contest winner titles!
Here’s the story behind our scary doll costumes. I received a message from my sister asking if I could come up with a fun theme for her and her friends to use. After some thought it grew from a fun group costume to a large scale costume that grew and grew! I have always loved … Read more
DANGEROUSLY CHEESEY! I always strive for the most creative costumes that girls my age have never thought of. Most of my friends go as Slutty Ghosts…but not me. I wanted something that would make people say “Oh Wow!” or “That’s Awesome”. Chester the Cheetah was such a hit! I wore orange jeans from Old Navy, … Read more
A group of us from work were running in the annual Big Dog Howl 5k in Columbus, GA and wanted to dress up as a group. We ended up winning the costume contest so that was exciting! I bought red shorts for each of us and covered them with white duct tape. One of the … Read more
My Caddyshack costume was inspired by a combination of Caddyshack mixed with mini golf. This took me a few weeks to complete. I worked on it when I could usually late nights in the garage. This Caddyshack costume isn’t that difficult of a costume to build and you can create any shape and size your … Read more
I got the idea for my son’s costume contest by looking at his expression one day I thought that looked just like Chucky from Child’s Play and then it was on. My mission to turn my son Brody into a living Chucky Doll and inflict nightmares into those that Chucky just creeped them out. So … Read more
This is my son Landon. He plays the claw machines a lot! We make videos playing the claw machine and we put them on Youtube! We have over 1.6 million views on our channel! He got the idea for this costume because he has his own candy claw machine in his room and wanted to … Read more
This homemade Candy Crush costume is my first DIY costume for Halloween 2013 – Candy Crush Saga! There is a warm satisfaction in DIY-ing your own Halloween costume. The last thing we should be doing is digging through racks of packaged polyester princess dirndls at Halloween Town USA – it’s an insult to our creativity! … Read more
It was October 29th. Me and my daughter were trying to make a homemade costume for a costume party. A peacock costume? No feathers I said. A cowgirl? No hat. A witch? No broom. We just couldn’t find any homemade costume around the house. So then we gathered all the possible things around the house. … Read more
So my 4 year old decided he wanted to be coffee, coffee, really what the heck crazy kid. So after scowering the internet I found some ideas but none that I really liked, bought or wearable for a kid so I got to thinking. We went to Joann’s fabric, bought some light brown fabric, some … Read more
There is one of these pedestrian crossing signs right outside of my work parking lot that I pass every day. On the way home I was trying to think of something different to be and I saw that sign! This wasn’t too bad to make. First Step: Outfit – black shoes, black pants, long sleeve black … Read more
My husband is a HUGE Star wars fan so I allowed him to pick our Halloween costumes this year and low and behold, he chose Star Wars! He wanted to do original Star Wars film characters, and of course he wanted me to be Princess Leia. However, I am pretty ambitious with my Halloween costumes … Read more
Originally, I just wanted to do the black swan, and wondered how I could set it apart from other black swan costumes…I wanted to show both sides, and make it really cool looking. My favorite part about the whole costume is the one red contact. It just gives the look that edge. Materials: Black night … Read more